Opinion Is the state of targeted digital advertising broken? Advertisements are everywhere - newspapers, TV channels, billboards, and digital. But is the current state of digital advertising good for the end user? Read my opinion to find out more. Aaditya Menon 23 Jan 2021 • 11 min read
Spark How to run Spark 3.0 applications on your GPU Wanted to run your Spark job on a GPU but didn't know how? Well, your search ends here :) Aaditya Menon 19 Sep 2020 • 4 min read
Spark Cool Spark ML - Part 2: Preprocessing of Data Data preprocessing is the process of detecting and correcting inaccurate records from a dataset. Its importance is more paramount when it comes to big data. Learn how you can preprocess data in Spark ML. Aaditya Menon 6 Jun 2020 • 10 min read
LinkedIn My journey to 10k post views on LinkedIn My LinkedIn posts' Views and Reaction Count went up by 100x and 20x respectively. See my experiences here. Aaditya Menon 19 May 2020 • 5 min read
Spark Spark 3.0 adds native GPU integration: Why that matters? You won't have to depend on your CPU anymore to run Spark based jobs. You will be able to offload them off to the GPU. Learn why this matters in this post Aaditya Menon 16 May 2020 • 3 min read
Scala Tail Recursion: Why and How-to Use in Scala Read my blog post to know more about the advantages of tail recursion, and how do you use it in Scala. Aaditya Menon 8 May 2020 • 4 min read
Spark Cool Spark ML: K Nearest Neighbors Learn how you can write a KNN algorithm from scratch and modify it for use with larger datasets in Spark Aaditya Menon 19 Apr 2020 • 7 min read
Scala Add new functions to existing classes the Scala way Why extend classes to add a small functionality, when you could just write an implicit class? Read my post on how you too can take advantage of that in Scala Aaditya Menon 10 Apr 2020 • 2 min read
IPL IPL 2020 Auction experience with RCB Here's to a dream come true when I got recognized by the RCB for my madness for them. Aaditya Menon 22 Dec 2019 • 3 min read
Docker MySQL installation inside Docker on Mac I’ve never liked to make changes to my laptop by providing my admin credentials to install various tools, like MySQL because I love doing things at a user Aaditya Menon 29 Mar 2019 • 2 min read
Android One Nokia 7 Plus review: The best Android One Smartphone? Hey all, a couple of months back I had purchased a Nokia 7 plus. The unit I received had a malfunctioning headphone jack. Thus I had to wait for a Aaditya Menon 3 Sep 2018 • 14 min read
Detour Factory Visit - Episode of a visit to a Wood Cutting Factory Hey all, today I will write about my visit to a wood cutting factory situated near my home. This visit was back in December 2017, so I’m sorry Aaditya Menon 26 Aug 2018 • 3 min read
windows 10 Windows 10 Analysis: How does it fare after 3 years Microsoft released Windows 10 three years ago, on July 29th 2015. With previous versions of Windows, Microsoft used to release a new version of Windows once every 3 years. This Aaditya Menon 23 Jul 2018 • 7 min read
Higher resolution in Linux without adding new hardware? People with a Full HD Screen on a laptop will enjoy a large real estate, compared to those who do not have one. Those who don’t have a Aaditya Menon 6 Jul 2018 • 3 min read
ADB UPDATE: Enable ADB over a Mobile Hotspot in Android Hello folks, I am back with yet another post in the Solving Technical Series. Android developers use the ADB interface to debug their apps, and polish it until they release Aaditya Menon 1 Jul 2018 • 3 min read
How to setup any Android Things device without an external monitor I have been trying to boot up my Raspberry Pi 3B ever since January 2018. I had tried Raspbian, Windows 10 for IoT, and Retro Pi. None of them seemed Aaditya Menon 21 Jun 2018 • 3 min read
ASUS Enable Natural Scrolling for Trackpads using libinput I had recently upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 and installed Unity back. After installing, I found that Reverse Scrolling/Natural Scrolling option was missing from Settings in Unity, while it Aaditya Menon 26 May 2018 • 4 min read
Android Project Add git to existing Android projects Towards the end of first year and before the start of my second year, one of the problems I had while developing Simple Weather was I had formatted my laptop, Aaditya Menon 29 Mar 2018 • 4 min read
